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‘In the Copernican system we have ‘the inclination of the earth’s axis.’ In the Koreshan System, would it not be the tilt or inclination of the axis of the central sun away from the plane of the terrestrial equator? At what period of the Mazzarothic cycle does the inclination occur, and when may we expect it to be tilted back into its normal and proper position? Do the changes occur gradually or suddenly? Has the inclination anything to do with what is called the fall of man and his inclination to be erratic and evil? Have the variation of the seasons, and the constant and fierce elemental strife, storm, and violence arising therefrom, any relation to similar conditions in the world of mankind?”
The ecliptic in the physical heavens is the path of the visible sun; that path, determined by the plane of the orbit of the central sun, is oblique to the equator 23½° at the present time. We speak simply of the obliquity of the ecliptic. The ecliptic changes in obliquity as related to the equator; in time, it may possess all degree of obliquity; sometimes it is at right angles ‘to the equator; and again coincidental with it.
Every change of the ecliptic in relation to the equator denotes some change in the relation of the path of the divine Sun to humanity. We are nearing the time when the ecliptic and equator will be coincidental; that is, the solar and lunar systems will become one, ‘typical of the biunity of the coming perfect manhood, which will comprise the solar annulus. There is to occur in humanity the complete conjunction of the Fatherhood and Motherhood of Deity, the Sun and Moon of humanity; near the time of the occurrence of that conjunction, the ecliptic will resume its coincidental position with the equator.
The unity of the solar and lunar systems will mark the time of the ushering in of the divine kingdom in earth. When the ecliptic and equator become coincidental, an annulus of light will appear in the physical heavens, and there will be universal day for thousands of years. This is the Golden Age of both the physical and anthropostic worlds. The change in obliquity of the ecliptic is both gradual and sudden—that is, there is a slow movement of the ecliptic on the solstitial colure all the time; but the times come when there are sudden movements covering several degrees. The next jump will be about 23½°.
As the dropping of the ecliptic back to a position coincidental with the equator is analogous to the perfection of humanity, or a portion of it, and the manifestation of the divine Light throughout the world, it follows that the departure of the ecliptic from the equatorial plane, marks the fall of man, and the production of night in the world, the type of mental darkness. The movement of the ecliptic on the colure marks a cycle of given length, during which a number of sudden changes in the obliquity of the ecliptic occur, together with tilts of the poles of the earth.
We can conceive that when the ecliptic is at right angles with the equator, the path of the sun being over the poles, the conditions in the physical world must indeed be rigorous, and human life reduced to the minimum of manifestation or number of members of the human race. The past dispensation has been conducive to prolification in humanity. There are great climaxes in the cycle, in which both the physical cosmos and the human world reach perfection. And there are crises and cataclysms, storms and upheavals, sinking of continents and the making of seas.
That many of such changes are sudden is proven by the fact that the now extinct mammoths which are unearthed in the frigid regions, give evidence of having been killed in catastrophe while feeding. Before the great catastrophe which buried the mammoths in tombs of ice, the frigid portions of Siberia were undoubtedly tropical. Every change in the physical cosmos, every great cataclysm, flood, and earthquake, is indicative of a corresponding change in the human world.
Editorial transcription checked against the cited scans; historical claims remain those of The Flaming Sword.
The Flaming Sword · Vol. 19, No. 6 · Jul 18, 1905 · PDF p. 12